Dentam
Dreaming of Disney
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- Feb 6, 2015
I totally did!!
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I totally did!!
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, DD won't even be 32 inches by November, so a lot of the rides that she lists like Soarin', Radiator Springs Racers, Goofy’s Sky School, Silly Symphony Swings, etc. will all be out of her height range. The Bug's Land area was really a necessary place for really little ones to enjoy that park and taking it out leaves a huge void.
Does anyone know how strict they are with the height limits on some of the lower end, 32 inches rides? I feel like she could handle
Mater's Junkyard Jamboree or Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters, but she will still be an inch or two short probably.
Does anyone have two checking accounts, specifically one for rent/mortgage and the other for other bills/spending? I'm debating on separating my rent due away from our other checking.
Disney won't budge on height requirements at ALL, in my experience. Plus, those rides you listed are actually fairly rough. You get thrown around a lot on both of them.
You can still ride several things at DCA:
Little Mermaid
Golden Zephyr
Monsters Inc
Toy Story Midway Mania
Red Car Trolley
You can also go to the Redwood Creek challenge trail (There are some smaller play areas for little ones )
Go see Frozen show
Do Turtle Talk with Crush at the Animation building
Is there a reason why you chose DCA over Disneyland? I may have missed it in an earlier post, but DL is a far better choice for a toddler.
I have the list of all the activities we can do in each park. And good point about the roughness of the rides. I guess it has been a while since we were there and I didn't remember that.
We have 3 day park hoppers. Which means that we will be spending more time in Disneyland and less time in DCA. I was just so sad when I saw that Bug's Land would be gone by the time we got there. I was really looking forward to riding some of those rides again with her.
Do you send the check via online banking or do you write and send it? When I send a check via online banking the money is either immediately deducted on the day the check is sent (chase) or the day it’s to be delivered (bank of America).I'm going back and forth on opening another checking for rent. We have one checking, but the owner takes a really long time to cash our rent check so I'm thinking maybe I'd like it separate so our checking account can be "cleaner". We are going to ask them to look into paypal or some other method other than personal check but we don't think they are going to get it. They are out of state.
Good you have park hoppers and can do both and you are still going ahead with that part of the trip. I plan to take my grandson next year he will be an early preschool age 2 or 3 depending when exactly we go. I would think Disneyland has some great ones for the really little ones, it's been so long for me.
No, they actually want us to mail them the check. I went ahead and signed up for another checking account for our rent. They have billpay where they can mail a check or do transfer of funds.Do you send the check via online banking or do you write and send it? When I send a check via online banking the money is either immediately deducted on the day the check is sent (chase) or the day it’s to be delivered (bank of America).
I'm feeling a little stressed out regarding our debt at the moment and having a little pity party for myself. Our housemate let me know yesterday that there's a good chance he'll be moving out soon for a job opportunity (which is great for him!), and while on one hand i'm excited to not have a housemate anymore i'm also a little stressed about losing the $600/month he pays. Now even though this isn't a for sure thing at the moment, it's still a little stressful. I know that between my husband and I we make enough to pay everything that needs to be paid, it just won't leave us much wiggle room for anything else. I'm debating the pros and cons of doing a personal loan to pay off all our debt (credit cards and student loans). It would technically add interest to the credit card debt since those are currently at 0% interest, but it should save us money on the student loans. Plus it has the added benefit of it would be paid off quicker and it would bring the overall total of what we pay a month down some. Another option would be to do a personal loan to just pay off the student loans and keep attacking the credit card debt as we are now. Or we just continue on with what we're doing and we find other places to trim down spending. (Definitely need to switch our car insurance. When we got our new car back in May + moving it jumped us up by $50/month.) Anyways, there's my mini pity party. On the bright side we leave for our cruise on Saturday and I so can't wait!
If the credit cards are at 0% for a while, then I wouldn't take a personal loan to pay those off. Are the student loans at a higher rate of interest than a personal loan would be? If not, then I wouldn't take out a personal loan for those either honestly. If the money situation is really stressful, have you considered finding another housemate? It might not be ideal longterm, but it could help you continuing paying down your debts until you feel more comfortable without the extra income. And I would also look for ways to cut back a bit too. That honestly is never a terrible idea, I think.
Someday, I will churn bank bonuses and CC bonuses...it is my destiny...We have many checking accts due to churning bank bonuses but to pay the mortgage I felt it was much easier to keep that money separate from the general fund. The last 2 Thursdays of every month I put half the mortgage amount into our savings account.
The day the 2nd half goes in, the payment comes out.
This is just our local bank where we have our main checking account, not a high-interest online savings such as Ally or Synchrony.
I find that when the mortgage $ is kept separate, it gives me a more realistic view of what is available in checking.
When I requested to our mortgage bank to let us pay our own property taxes and insurance, I set up my own version of an escrow account with Capital One 360 first, now Ally and those same last 2 Thursdays I also set aside half our escrow amount.
Makes it simple to pay the bills when due and we earn some interest too.
We have one that I opened when I did ebay so payments would go into there and not be with our other bills. Now, we have it attached to things like Netflix, Hulu, EZpass etc. We like having a separate account for the online bills that are not too large.Does anyone have two checking accounts, specifically one for rent/mortgage and the other for other bills/spending? I'm debating on separating my rent due away from our other checking.